So now with some assistance from my friend Mr. Wikipedia; "the aerial roots grow down and around the stem of the host, their growth accelerating once the ground has been reached.Over time, the roots coalesce to form a pseudotrunk, which may give the appearance that it is strangling the host."

"They grow into thick woody trunks which, with age, can become indistinguishable from the main trunk."

"The original support tree can sometimes die, so that the banyan becomes a "columnar tree" with a hollow central core".

Especially on an old tree like this.

Beautiful, but I wouldn't want to be caught out late at night underneath one of these.

Friday, 22 November 2013

Now, this certainly isn't as bad a some monster concrete and glass c-c-c-condo, but a lot of the charm of old time Florida is slowly - or in some cases, not so slowly - disappearing.

Of course, if you talk to an alligator or an Osprey, they might say even the old style charm is long gone as far as they're concerned.

Then one would bite your leg off and the other would poke your eyes out. Now that's Florida!

Then you would stagger into a swamp and a poisonous Water Moccasin would bite you and thousands of malaria infected mosquitoes would also bite you.

A friend one told me that when most people think of Florida, they think of the little one mile strip all along the coast. When in actual fact [Ed. note: as opposed to your normal made-up facts?] 99% of it is scrub brush and what I've just described.

Oh yeah, and recently, this like....

As Florida - well, the Everglades anyway - is being overrun with huge pythons.

Florida recently had a contest to try aned catch as many of these snakes as possible. As they ere eating just about everything they come across.

1,500 "Python Hunters" signed up and the contest and it went for six months.

Result; only 68 pythons captured.

The picture above being one of the 68. It's claimed they said, "You should have seen the one that got away."

Urban Cowboy

Welcome

Hi, I'm Jim Arnott. For whatever reason, I've decided to create a blog. Why would someone want to read my blog? If you have any ideas, please let me know.

My shtick will be to post photos and comments using only my cell phone. Why? It's not because I'm too cheap to buy a real camera. Don't believe those rumours. It's because, well.......this is the only camera I choose to have. Yeah, that's it.

And based on this photo, maybe these low resolution babies are the way to go. Yikes!